Category: Wheel Tracks
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Happy 90th Birthday, Mom!
My mother celebrated her 90th birthday last month. It really got me thinking about how we throw around the terms “old folks,” “elderly,” “getting up there,” etc. That is definitely not my mother. She is in great health, lives by herself a couple of miles from my husband and I, still drives, and takes care…
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Happy Birthday Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts!
Lloyd Davis’s Antique Car in 1953 was a 1925 Davis, one of 692 made that year in Richmond, Indiana. Lloyd is pictured above, not because of his car, but because he is one of the 29 Charter Members of the VAE. The VAE began 70 years ago, in 1953, with these 29 Members. Bradford Benson,…
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What Difference 70 Years Makes!
In 1953, I was 5 years old and anxiously waiting to start first grade the next year. There was no kindergarten, no Head Start, no play schools, so you just waited until you were 6 and could start first grade. Here I might add that in Athens, Vermont, there was no bus, so transportation was…
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What a Way to Fight a Fire!
I’ve been thinking about my early memories of the VAE. Gael and I weren’t married — just dating — when on occasion we would go to the VAE meetings at the Lincoln Inn in Essex Junction. I remember Pev Peake being there, because by then he was a good friend of Gael’s. Probably most of…
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1941 Dodge 1/2 ton Pickup WC
Jim Shover Always Wanted a Show Pickup. He Found This One in a Field in 1973. Jim Shover has family all around him and they are very special to him. However, it does not take long to find another type of family in Jim’s life, and we believe if he could add the Shover surname…
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A Perfect Day
I don’t follow baseball anymore but have been curious about what people think of the new rules like timing for the pitcher, etc., been curious about what people think of the making the game shorter and, I guess, less boring. I heard one father say that he saves up to take his son to a…
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1930 Plymouth Roadster
Rita Codling and Alden Chapman owned this beauty, a 1930 Plymouth Roadster Our 1930 Plymouth RoadsterBy Alden Chapman (Written in 1980) Having had three roadsters previously and selling them for various reasons, we decided it was time to find another one, this time to restore and enjoy. At the 1974 Gypson Tour, mention was made…
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Mark Your Calendar!
(Pictured above is our former Wheel Tracks editor, Gene Fodor, and his beloved unrestored 1953 MG TD, both ready for the 2011 costume event.) The 66th VAE “Vermont Antique and Classic Car Meet” is on August 11, 12 & 13. The Souvenir Tent The Souvenir Tent has a new organizer this year……… Lester Felch has…
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Cars and Coffee Middlebury – May 2023
Middlebury’s season opener Cars and Coffee at the A&W had a great turnout!
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After Cars & Coffee Tour – May 2023
After the May 20, 2023 Vermont Cars & Coffee gathering in Burlington, we went on a cruise and visited The Residence at Quarry Hill and The Residence at Shelburne Bay (pictured), as well as the Whitney Hill Homestead.
